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Now I hope chicago gets clobbered for my credibility….

Just sent this to my Chicago relatives-15 people. Heads up everyone. A once a decade blizzard is likely later this week in Chicagoland. If I didn't have a rebound of Covid we'd be coming to experience it. Any travel after Wednesday probably will need to be rearranged. It's going to be very cold later in the storm-be careful!

Considering that is 12/30-1/3 it should not be surprising.

Yeah Chicagoland doesn’t get biggies that often but when they do they are doozies. I’m mildly disappointed but this year covid took the choice away.

Great post!

It has warmed but the long wave pattern is what I’m talking about. I mean the west is way below average. Snow frequently the past 2 years in Seattle. It has happened before on similar patterns. To me the biggest effect of cc is the length of the cold season which seems shorter.

Climate change is real. But to take a 10-20 year slice and point to cc is dishonest. We’ve had periods like this before.

Or turned off the water coming into the house....

Nope. Stuck here with covid-trip last week got cancelled from covid. I took Paxlovid and now have a rebound case which is annoying. If I was covid free I’d head out there but I’d wait until it was 24 hours away.

I’m not even punting the rest of December….

This thread devolved today….

In March? That’s insane. Some of the best snow months in my memory were March.

I came from the tip storm thread to get some analysis. It’s there but a lot of poor me in between. I understand the frustration but we need to move on. A reshuffling could be beneficial.

There would be time to make it by the 25th.

Damn....we have lodging and lots of family in Chicago. If I didn't have covid I'd be on my way.

Unpinned mercifully. Move your interest to other areas. Perhaps there will be a quick hitting inch or 2 in a lot of places getting pure rain after fropa in time for a white Christmas.

Not a relevant change. It seems like next week may be better but we've heard and said that before.

Me too!

And here I am watching the day after tomorrow on syfy.

Good work Donnie.

Good melt my mpm.

My original plan to pay out for 5 years had to be changed to 2 years to keep costs down. I have a history of lots of dementia on my mother’s side but as I age without any signs I’m already eyeing dropping it. Not yet though.

It was amazing! And Walt posted on Eastern during or leading up to big events. Pure dumb luck to have that happen to me.

True story: Feds were offered govt negotiated (but not govt paid) long term care insurance. This is circa October 2002 on a cool breezy day. They had this information session at the DOT facility near Kendall Sq. I see this guy running well ahead of me and I was rushing fearing being late. I get on the check in line where they were checking IDs and of course I forgot mine. The same guy is in front of me and I see it’s a NOAA badge and the name is Drag. I blurt out “Walt Drag” and he wheels around wondering who could know him there. The guard let me in and I sat next to him for the session. We talked snow a lot! An amazing coincidence! We stayed in email contact for awhile-brilliant and very nice man.

Can you imagine if they got Judge?